Mass mediations : new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond / edited by Walter Armbrust.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353) and index.

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Introduction: anxieties of scale / Walter Armbrust -- Public culture in Arab Detroit : creating Arab/American identities in a transnational domain / Andrew Shryock -- The 6/8 beat goes on : Persian popular music from Bazm-e Qujariyyeh to Beverly Hills garden parties / Anthony Shay -- Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International : transgender pop and polysemiotics of sex, nation, and ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian border / Ted Swedenburg -- Playing it both ways : local Egyptian performers between regional identity and international markets / Katherine E. Zirbel -- Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah : Moroccan music and Euro-American imagination / Philip Schuyler -- Nasser 56/Cairo 96 : reimaging Egypt's lost community / Joel Gordon -- Consuming Damascus: public culture and the construction of social identity / Christa Salamandra -- The hairbrush and the dagger : mediating modernity in Lahore / Richard McGill Murphy -- "Beloved Istanbul" : realism and the transnational imaginary in Turkish popular culture / Martin Stokes -- Badi'a Masabni, artiste and modernist: the Egyptian print media's carnival of national identity / Roberta L. Dougherty -- American ambassador in technicolor and cinemascope : Hollywood and revolution on the Nile / Robert Vitalis -- The golden age before the golden age : commercial Egyptian cinema before the 1960s / Walter Armbrust.